Welcome to the forum elaine, glad to have you here. Sounds as though you are at some middle ground yourself, which is great, and I am sure your daughter is not making stress any easier for you. Very unfortunate that one.

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I have been blessed with a therapist who doesnt charge me much. My payment probably just does pay her gas to and from her office. If I had played my cards right, I would be out of work on my disability insurance but I was laid off brought back 3 months later and before my Cobra ran out....still didnt think right as the stress kept me spinning and didnt pick up before it ran out....I started a new job, not exactly what I want to do but it will pay the bills. Not half as stressful either so far...hopefully it wont be.

I understand about your daughter elaine. I have 4 sons....one is surely self will run riot...wonder where he got THAT from? The only way I can help him is prayer and working on me for him to see. It hurts to see our children in pain and we cant kiss it and slap a band-aid on it to make it better anymore. Our childrens recovery is thier responsibility. We do the best we can and the rest is in Gods hands. I can listen and its hard to do that without trying to fix it. If we dont let them suffer thier own consequences as we have had to, they dont learn. When your daughter has been in enough pain, she will do something about it.

Nanc